SWAT team members on East 44th Street, a block from where the scene where Michael Vaughan barricaded himself and his three children inside his home in the 4300 block of in Latonia Sunday.

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Police negotiators communicated by phone and text with Michael Vaughan, standing vigil for nearly 20 hours as the veteran Kentucky National Guardsman sporadically fired his rifle from an upstairs window and ranted on Facebook about everything from an estranged girlfriend to U.S. Sen. Rand Paul.

A bullet slammed into a ballistic shield designed to protect an officer's chest at one point during the ordeal that went from Saturday to Sunday at Vaughan's house at 4352 Michigan Ave. in Latonia.